Improvement in instruments for relieving choke and bloat in cattle



tnted guette gnant @time N. Q. MUNGER, or CAsCo, AND G. B. PoMERoY, or soU'rH HAVEN,

1 MicHIGAN.

Letters Patent No.A 92,085, dated .Tum 29, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN INSTRUMENTS FOR RELIEVING- CHOK'E AND BLGAT IN CATTLE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all rwlwm 'it may concern:

Be it known that we, N. Q.l\ IUNGEn, of Casco, Allegan county, Michigan, and G.- B. POMEROY, of South Haven, Van Buren county, Michigan, have invented an Improvement upon CEsophagns-Tubes, for which Letters Patent were granted to said N. Q. MUNGER, July 10, 1860; and we do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full andexact descriptionthereo't, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which drawing is a plan view of said invention.

The nature of our invention may be better understood from a brief description of the former invention, upon whichv this is an improvement, followed by a statement of the character ofthe improvement, and the purposes for which it is intended.

The original invention of Mr. MUNGER, was an instrument intended for the speedy and effective relief of cattle suffering from choke or bloat, and consisted of a tube, the middle portion being made of a closelywound coil of wire, andcovered with leather, or other suitable material.

One end of said tube is open, with a flaring mout-h-l piece, and the other end closed, and expanded iu the form of an egg, aud perforated with a number of holes. f

To relieve cattle from choke, the open end was passed down the throat of the beast until it touched the obstacles, and pushed them down; the haring' ,shape ofthe end, and the flexibility of the tube, making it effective instantly, without injury to the animal.

In case of bloat, the closed end of the tube was passed into the anus, and when it reached the part affected, the egg-shaped form of said end enlarged the passage, and allowed the gas to escape through the perforations into the tube, and so out ofthe tube.

It ,was found in use, that the instrument was quite expensive in its first cost, mainly from the employment of the coiled wire; that for the same reason it was difficult to clean; and the wire easily rusting, it was liable to get out of repair in a short time, and was not easily repaired, because, to make such repair, it was necessary to remove the leather covering.

In addition to this, it could not be usedfor purposes of injection, whichis often essential in the treatment of diseases of cattle.

Our improvement, therefore, is the employment of a tube, of the general form of that in the orignal invention, made of leather, gutta-percha, or India rubber, and about four feet long.

In combination with this tube, for injection-purposes, we use a flexible piston, of proper length, made of leather, gu'tta-percha, or India rubber.

A more particular description is as follows:

B is a cylindrical tube, made of leather, gutta-percha, or India rubber, having an open end, C, with a flaring mouth, and a'closed end, A, egg-shaped, and larger than the middle of the tube, with several perforations near its point.

The inner diameter of this tube is the same throughout its entire length.

A piston, D, of similar material 'as the tube, and somewhat longer that it, has,l its front end packed so as to tit tightly to the inside.

To relieve cattle from choke, remove the piston D, and introduce the end, 0, of the tube into the mouth of the animal, and pass it down the thro'at, pushing Wit-h it all obstructions into the stomach.

To relieve from bloat, remoye the piston D, and introduce the end A, of the tube B, into the anus of the animal, and push it along until it reaches the part affected, when the gases will escapel through the per- `foratio'ns .into the tube, and through the tube into the air.

y In case of bloody murrain, 4or in any disease where an inject-ion is desirable, pass the end A, of the tube B, without the piston, into the anus of the animal, until it reaches the part to be-relieved,.then pour into it the liquor to be injected, and then, placing the piston D into thetube, use it asa syringe.

This instrument is an improvement upon the former invention, in flexibility, in cheapness,'iu'durability, in cleanliness, in greater ease of repair, and in its combination with a piston; can be used in a larger class of diseases, and in that respect is more eilective.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The piston D, in combination with an instrumentl for the relief of choke and bloat, it consisting of 4a tube VB, with llaring open end O, and perforated egg-shape end A, constructed and operating as above described.) N. Q.'M UN GER. [LA s.]

G. B. POMEROY. [1.. s.] Witnesses THos. HnwsoN, S. A. SIMMONS. 

